Egle Sigler started at Rackspace as a junior programmer and later moved to a DevOps architect position before advancing to her current role: principal architect of private cloud solutions at Rackspace.

Along the way, Sigler was asked about leading a team of developers, but it didn’t seem like the right path. “I wasn’t really interested in taking the management route, at least not immediately,” Sigler says.

She sought advice from a senior colleague, who raised an important question. “He asked: ‘When do you feel like the time disappears? What is it that you work on that you can lose yourself in?’” Sigler recalls. “For me, that really was a turning point. I love the technical stuff. I can spend hours and hours working on it without realizing it. While I like working with people, I prefer the technical part.”

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